Eland Bull
5 Fascinating facts about the Eland:
☆They are great jumpers, despite their huge size, and can clear a 2 metre fence with ease.
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5 Fascinating facts about the Eland:
☆They are great jumpers, despite their huge size, and can clear a 2 metre fence with ease.
☆It was both food and spiritual inspiration to the prehistoric hunter-gatherer peoples. It features in rock and cave art across the region.
☆They have a distinctive clicking sound as they walk. This is thought to come from their hooves, which splay apart and click back together under the animals great weight (900 kg)
☆The common Eland is better adapted than cattle to the African environment, and is easily domesticated. A female can produce up to 7kg of milk per day, which is richer in fat than cow milk.
☆The "Giant Eland" is also called 'Lord Derby's eland' in honor of Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby. At that time, Lord Derby sent botanist Joseph Burke to South Africa to collect animals for his museum and menagerie.
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☆They are great jumpers, despite their huge size, and can clear a 2 metre fence with ease.
☆It was both food and spiritual inspiration to the prehistoric hunter-gatherer peoples. It features in rock and cave art across the region.
☆They have a distinctive clicking sound as they walk. This is thought to come from their hooves, which splay apart and click back together under the animals great weight (900 kg)
☆The common Eland is better adapted than cattle to the African environment, and is easily domesticated. A female can produce up to 7kg of milk per day, which is richer in fat than cow milk.
☆The "Giant Eland" is also called 'Lord Derby's eland' in honor of Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby. At that time, Lord Derby sent botanist Joseph Burke to South Africa to collect animals for his museum and menagerie.
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